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-====== Student Information System User Guide (Responsive Version) ====== +This is the old URL. The user guide is now located at [[SIS User Manual]]
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-This is the user guide for the Student Information System used for training and as reminder reference for people using it. +
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-====== School Setup ====== +
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-This section explains how to setup or model your school.  +
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-===== Create a New School ===== +
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-You create a school in ''School Setup -> School -> Add a School'' as shown below. Enter the information for your school and click ''Save''.  +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-create-2.png |}} +
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-You will then be able to switch between schools (if you are logged with a user with permission to do so) from the top right as shown below. You can also look at the school info that is selected. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-create-3.png |}} +
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-===== Portal Notes ===== +
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-The Portal Notes page is an announcement feature for the admin to communicate messages to the other users like teachers, parents and students; the message will display on the homepage of the user’s portal. Users can access their portal from a smartphone, tablet, laptop or computer with access to the SIS. +
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-To access this page, go to ''School Setup -> Portal Notes''. +
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-You can make the text appear for a certain period of time by selecting begin and end dates. You can also control who gets to see the message by clicking on the Visible to options. +
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-For example, if you want only parents to view the message, click Visible to Parent. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-portal-notes-1.png |}} +
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-You can then delete notes using the "X" button and add new ones as shown below.  +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-portal-notes-2.png |}} +
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-===== Create Marking Periods ===== +
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-Marking Period is the time division of the entire school year. For setting up the marking period go to ''School Setup -> Marking periods''. At first, the Full Year is already created with a Start & End date which had been entered while installing the school for the first time. Now the full year needs to be divided into semesters & quarters as per school requirements.  +
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-Start by creating your semesters. click on the "+" and fill out the Title, Short Name, Marking Period Begins & End date and Grade Posting Begins & End date for that marking period. Grade posting begins & end date indicates the span of time in which users can input final grades. +
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-<note warning> +
-If you are setting a system for training that will occur outside of the normal school year (e.g. typical school year for you is August 1 to May 31 and you are having your training in June/July some features will not be available for the training if you put your marking periods as you would in production. One way around this is to put your marking period with a full year taking up the whole year (e.g. June 1 to May 31). That way you will have access to all features by scheduling course in June/July when you are doing the workshop. +
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-There are three check boxes: +
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-  * Graded: By checking a marking period ‘Graded’, grading option is allowed and you can enter final grades for the courses which run for that marking period. +
-  * Comments: By checking the ‘Comments’ box, teachers and administrators are allowed to enter Comments while giving final grades. +
-  * Exam: Exam option should be checked when you want to take a physical exam at the end of a marking period. Checking the Exam box will allow the teachers and administrators to enter grades manually for this exam. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-marking-periods-1.png |}} +
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-With your semesters in places you can create their respective quarters. For example, to add quarters in Semester 2 you need to click on ''Semester 2'' and then the ''+'' as shown below. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-marking-periods-3.png |}} +
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-===== Calendars ===== +
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-==== Create Default Calendar ==== +
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-Create a calendar for your school in ''School Setup -> Calendars -> Create a new calendar''. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-calendar-create-1.png |}} +
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-You can create as many different calendars as you want. You could create a calendar specifically for teachers for example but for simplicity's sake one should suffice. Call it **Default** and check mark **Default calendar for this school**. Enter the From and To dates, the days of the week and who the calendar will be visible to. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-calendar-create-2.png |}} +
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-When complete you can see your calendar as shown below. School days will be shown in light blue while non school days in pink. You may have to change the month to a school month to see this. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-calendar-create-3.png |}} +
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-==== Creating a Holiday ==== +
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-If you need to mark a day as a holiday, simply uncheck the checkbox for that meeting day with a double click & save it. That day will become pink denoting a holiday. If you click on System wide this unchecked holiday would also copy to all your other calendars and other schools in the system. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-calendar-holiday-1.png |}} +
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-After saving the holiday should be in pink as shown below. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-calendar-holiday-1.png |}} +
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-==== Create an Event ==== +
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-To add an event on a calendar, click on the (+) sign. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-calendar-event-1.png |}} +
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-A new pop up window will open up. Enter the date, title & notes and save it. If a system has multiple schools and multiple calendars, then the ''Show Event System Wide'' check marked will copy an event to all other calendars. So you don’t need to create it repeatedly. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-calendar-event-2.png |}} +
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-The event information is saved. You can edit it by clicking it. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-calendar-event-3.png |}} +
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-It will also be show on the calendar and on the portal page of the selected users for that calendar. +
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-==== Delete a Calendar ==== +
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-To delete a Calendar from the school, click on the "X" button as shown below. If the calendar does not have any association (like students or course periods created in it) you will be able to delete it. If the calendar has been associated with the students or course periods, it will show a message stating, "Calendar can't be deleted as it has association". +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-calendar-delete-1.png |}} +
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-You will be asked whether you are sure you want to delete. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-calendar-delete-2.png |}} +
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-And if you only had one calendar you will be left with none as shown below. But you do need a calendar! +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-calendar-delete-3.png |}} +
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-==== Edit a Calendar ==== +
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-To edit a Calendar click on the pencil icon as shown below and you are given access to edit the calendar title, check/uncheck default calendar option and select events visible to list as per preferences. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-calendar-edit-1.png |}} +
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-===== Creating Periods ===== +
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-This is the area where you define the time divisions of a school day, known as periods. To create periods go to ''School setup -> Periods''. Start entering your periods by filling out the last row with a "+" sign and then click 'Save' as shown below. +
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-Do not overlap your periods start and end time. They should have at least one minutes in between the end time and start time of the next one. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-periods-1.png |}} +
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-The Title, Short Name, Start Time, End Time are self explanatory. The Sort Order is merely used to arrange the order in the way you like. The checkboxes are explained below. +
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-  * Used for Attendance: Checking this option will allow the teachers to take attendance on that particular period when that period is associated in a course period. +
-  * Ignore for scheduling: It is used to avoid period time clash while scheduling a student into 2 clashing course periods. +
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-You can always edit any of the previously created periods if you need to. To delete a period, click on the ''X'' icon to the left of the period name. +
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-===== Grade Levels ===== +
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-This section captures the different grade levels as per your school’s requirement. +
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-Fill in the information from ''School setup -> Grade levels'' and pay particular attention to the Next Grade field. When the school is rolled over at the end of each academic year, the students who are set to be promoted to the next grade are done according to the value you set here. +
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-So, always set the next grade value as the one following the previous grade level. +
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-Other than that, Grade Levels are created much in the same way as Periods. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-grade-levels-1.png |}} +
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-===== Rooms ===== +
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-This section lets you to create and define numerous rooms in the school. Go to ''School Setup -> Rooms'' and the page opens where you can enter the room title and its capacity along with a brief description. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-rooms-1.png |}} +
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-After entering every room, click ''Save'' and to delete a room, you can click on the ''X'' icon beside the room title. +
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-===== Grade Scales ===== +
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-Grade Scales are created to enter letter grades with the actual scores. To create a grade scale go to ''Grades -> Set up -> Report card Grades''. Then create a Grade Scale with a name, maximum scale value and sort order and click on ''Save''. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:grade-scales-1.png |}} +
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-After the grade scale is created, letter grades need to be entered as per requirement as shown below. Just keep on adding the rows and clicking ''Save''. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:grade-scales-2.png |}} +
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-Put the Title, Breakoff, Weighted GP value, Unweighted GP value & sort order & then click on save. The Breakoff fetches the letter grades as per the scores. Here, A=90; when a student gets 90 & above he will be entitled to get an A. The Weighted GP Value is entered to calculate GPA of the weighted courses (where "Course is weighted" option is on). The Unweighted GP Value is entered to calculate GPA of the unweighted courses (where "Course is weighted" option is off). +
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-<note tip> +
-Some high schools, to reflect the varying skill required for different level courses and to discourage students from selecting courses that are considered a source of easy 'A's, will give higher numerical grades for difficult courses, often referred to as a weighted GPA. +
--- Wikipedia +
-</note> +
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-Basically, creating this section would help to get the letter grades on the report card and to calculate GPA while creating Transcript. +
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-====== User Management ====== +
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-Users is where you manage staff and also optionally parents of students. Students are managed elsewhere. +
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-===== Adding a new staff ===== +
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-To add new Staff (e.g. Admin, Teachers and other Staff) in the system, go to ''Users -> Staff -> Add a Staff''. Fill up the information and click ''Save''. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:users-add-staff-1.png |}} +
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-Fill up the school information. This is where you assign roles such as teachers, administrators and non-teacher staff. +
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-Click ''Save'' and you will then see the school the new staff is assigned to. This could also be changed is desired. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:users-add-staff-3.png |}} +
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-===== Finding existing staff ===== +
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-You can find staff using a number of fields. Example below finds a staff with Last Name. +
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-You would retrieve all staff with Last Name searched as shown below +
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-You can also list all Teachers as shown in the following two illustrations. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:users-find-staff-3.png |}} +
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-===== Customize staff field ===== +
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-You may have a need to record more information not available by default. You can do this in ''Users -> Setup -> Staff field''. For example, click on ''Certificate information'' and you see a list of all the existing fields under it. If you want to add a new one click on the ''+'' icon. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:users-staff-fields-1.png |}} +
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-Then enter your new staff field category. For example, Qualification information. Then click ''Save''. +
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-You can then add more fields inside the new Qualifications information by clicking on the ''+'' icon. +
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-One by one you can add the fields inside Qualification information. You can assign them various type such as text, dates, etc. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:users-staff-fields-5.png |}} +
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-Finally, go into one of your staff and see the new tab ''Qualification information'' and the fields where you can enter some new custom data. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:users-staff-fields-6.png |}} +
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-====== Courses ====== +
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-===== Course Manager ===== +
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-To be able to assign students to courses (or any learning period in class,) mark attendance and grade student you must create subject, courses and course periods. +
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-  * Subjects: think of subject as simply a high level way to organize your areas of study (e.g. Mathematics, Arts, Social Sciences) +
-  * Course: are individual courses though at the school (e.g. for example in Mathematics we could have courses in Geometry, Arithmetic, Calculus) +
-  * Course Periods: are what define what course is thought by what teacher in what classroom and at what time.  +
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-First define some Subject or general areas of studies as shown below. Below the subject "Social Studies" is being added. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-courses-course-manager-1.png |}} +
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-Then for each subject you can create courses inside the subject by clicking on the subject and then the ''+'' icon under courses. Below we add a physics course for Grade 8 under the Science/Health subject. +
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-The following is what you see after creating the course. +
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-Final step to be able to assign students, grade them and mark attendance is to create the course period. You select which course you want to create a course period for then click on the ''+'' icon under course period. +
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-Fill out the Course period details as per requirements. The following are the description of various functionalities in a course period. You need to be careful while filling the details here as it holds great importance while evaluating the final grades, class ranks, etc. +
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-  * **Short Name:** a short name/title for the course period; +
-  * **Calendar:** select the calendar to be followed; Primary Teacher: select the teacher for the course period; +
-  * **Secondary Teacher:** select the teacher, if required (since it is not mandatory). It is provisioned to schedule two teachers in a course period; +
-  * **Seats:** number of seats available for the students for this course period; +
-  * **Grading Scale:** any grading scale name that the school system uses; +
-  * **Credit Hours:** if the course period is credit bearing, you must fill in the Credit Hours for the transcripts to show the completed credit hours for a course; +
-  * **Gender Restriction:** mark the desired set of students based on gender (if required) so as to restrict the scheduling of opposite gender students in a desired set of course period; +
-  * **Parent Period:** choose a parent period for this course period so that at the time of scheduling, that parent course period stands compulsory to be scheduled first before this course period. For instance, if there are course periods named Theory (CT) and Practical (CP) under a course named Chemistry, you can mark CT as a parent period in CP course period. Now, at the time of scheduling, if you try to schedule CP first, you’ll be notified to schedule CT instead, as CT is marked parent period in CP course period; +
-  * **Allow teacher Gradescale:** To allow teachers to override the school’s grade scale and to use their own, check this option. Checking this option would allow the teacher to create their own grading scale for the selected course period. Also, Score Rounding can be configured from teacher’s portal if this option is checked; +
-  * **Course is weighted:** check Course is weighted if this course period needs evaluation based on weighted GP value; +
-  * **Affects Honor Roll:** check Affects Honor Roll if you want the course to be counted in the honor roll; +
-  * **Half Day:** When this option is checked, it entitles the student scheduled in this CP to retrieve half day minutes which overwrites the actual CP’s per class minutes when the student attends this CP. +
-  * **Affects Class Rank:** mark the checkbox if you want this course period to be counted for class rank evaluation. +
-  * **Choose the Duration:** you can choose the duration either from the demarcated marking periods or a Custom period range (say a month or some days) +
-  * **Choose Schedule type:** you can choose any of the three options as per the system requirements. +
-  * **Fixed Schedule:** it enables you to choose a selected period for selected number of meeting days that continues in the same routine for the whole duration range that has been marked above. Select a Class room and the Period from the drop down list (the list must be created while setting up the system), check the Meeting Days you want the course period and lastly, to enable the course period for attendance, check the Takes Attendance checkbox. After filling all the details, click Save button in this page and the course period will be created. +
-  * **Variable Schedule:** it enables you to choose periods invariably for all the days in the duration of the course period. Select a Day, Period, Room and check Takes Attendance to validate the course period for marking attendance. Now, click Save and the page refreshes with the entered course period details and alongside will show a (+) sign, beneath the variable schedule, to allow adding of more periods and days similarly. +
-  * **Enter by Calendar Days:** This schedule type lets you to choose selected dates in the chosen duration. For instance, if you have a course period that you don't need it regularly as other learning lessons like a test period, you can enter particular dates by the calendar for that test period. To do so, after filling out the above details, select Enter by Calendar Days. +
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-When done click ''Save'' as shown below. After saving you should see as below with a new course period.  +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-courses-course-manager-5.png |}} +
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-Note that note all the course period you will create will be showing in the Course Period. For example, if you create a course period for Physics meant to be delivered in second semester but you are in Quarter 1 (inside semester 1) then it will not show. You can have those show by switching yourself to the Quarter 3 or Quarter 4 as shown below and then again going to ''School Setup -> Courses -> Course Manager'' and locate your course period. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-courses-course-manager-6.png |}} +
-===== Course Catalogue ===== +
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-You can browse your course periods by going to ''School Setup -> Courses -> Course Catalog''. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-course-catalog-1.png |}} +
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-You can filter which one to display. For example, below we are filtering first by the marking period. Then you can filter further by subjects and even further by courses. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-course-catalog-2.png |}} +
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-===== Print Catalog ===== +
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-It might be useful to print the catalog sometimes. You can print the catalog in a number of ways by going to ''School Setup -> Courses -> Print Catalog by Term'', ''School Setup -> Courses -> Print Catalog by Grade Level'' and ''School Setup -> Courses -> Print all Courses''. For example, below we print catalog by term ''Quarter 2'' +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:school-setup-print-catalog-1.png?direct |}} +
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-And the result we get is the following in a new browser tab ready for printing if desired. +
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-===== Teacher Re-Assignment ===== +
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-If you need to re-assign teachers after the school year is under way and you whole catalog has already been created you can do so in ''School Setup -> Courses -> Teacher Re-Assignment''. For example, a teacher is transferred to another school, leaves the country or is otherwise no longer available and must be replaced by another. +
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-====== Students ====== +
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-===== Student Info ===== +
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-Go to ''Students -> Student Info'' to find your students. At first you will have no students. So clicking on ''Submit'' as shown below will result in no students found. +
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-===== Add a Student ===== +
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-You need to add your students in the system one by one carefully. You do this in ''Students -> Add a Student''. Fill up at least the basic information of the student. +
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-Pay particular attention to the student enrollment information as shown below. The options are explained below. +
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-  * **Next Grade at Current School** By default this option is selected which means when you rollover the data to the next school year, the student in 1st Grade would be promoted to 2nd Grade in the same school.  +
-  * **Retain** you can retain a student (if failed) to the same Grade level he/ she are in after rollover. +
-  * **Do not enroll after this school year** can be used when a Student is graduating; the student’s data are not rolled over to the next grade in the coming year. +
-  * **School Name** If you have a multi-school database, you will have the option to select any of those schools from this dropdown list to move the student directly to another school after rollover. +
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-These options should be selected correctly to get the proper student data in the next school year. At the bottom of the Enrollment Information you get an enrollment record of the student over the years. +
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-  * **Start Date** indicates the enrollment date;  +
-  * **Enrollment Code** you can give an enrollment code to describe how the student enrolled in your school; for instance, this could be a new student coming to school, an existing student that has been rolled over into a next grade (or same grade), or transferred in from another school. +
-  * **Drop Date** can be used for students leaving the schools +
-  * **Drop Code** with a code of Transferred out, rolled over and dropped out. +
-  * **School** the school in which the enrollment record is. +
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-Finally, click on ''Save'' to proceed. +
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-You can enter the student address in the following tab. There you can also assign a parent or guardian of of the student and optionally allow that person to have access to the system and various information such as events and student's attendance and grade. +
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-Optionally, you can also include the students medical information, comments, goals and upload files. +
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-===== Student Re Enroll ===== +
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-Student Re-enrollment option is used to enroll a dropped student. Sometimes, students drop out from school & re-enrolls again into the school. When a student is dropped from the school, The system keeps that student's data as an inactive student. In this case, if you again create the same student's data there will be two students with same data but with different student ID. System will consider them as separate individuals. To avoid this, we need to use Student Re-enroll to re-admit the dropped student.  +
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-More information can be found at following link until this is documented here with new version. +
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-https://support.os4ed.com/hc/en-us/articles/201048146-How-to-Re-enroll-Students +
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-====== Scheduling ====== +
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-This is where you can define what student takes what course so that you can later mark attendance and grade student carefully for each courses. +
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-===== Student Schedule ===== +
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-You can assign courses to individual students. Go to ''Scheduling -> Student Schedule'' to get the below and either click submit to get all students at your schools or search for a specific one. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:scheduling-student-schedule-1.png?direct |}} +
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-Click on the student you want to schedule a course for. +
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-You will be under the student's schedule page. There you can add courses to be taken by the student by click ''Add a Course''. +
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-This will open a window where you can browse your courses and select one. In the example below the student is a grade 1 student we are adding the Vernacular Reading Grade 1 course. +
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-You should then see the new course that the student is enrolled to as shown below. +
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-===== View Schedule ===== +
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-Is merely to shown in a print friendly format the student schedule. The student we just added to a course above would look like this. +
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-===== Group Schedule ===== +
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-You will most likely want to schedule student several at a time instead of one by one which would become tedious. You can this in ''Scheduling -> Group Schedule''. Click on ''Submit'' to get a list of all your students as shown below. The example below we are adding the grade 1 students to the Math course in Quarter 1 with David Syne as teacher. +
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-====== Attendance ====== +
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-The system can record attendance in flexible ways. For example, you could have a single homeroom attendance in the morning to mark your student attendance which may be more suitable for primary schools. In secondary school you may want to mark attendance for each individual courses as students are getting old enough and may choose to skip individual schools without telling parent. +
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-===== Homeroom Attendance Course Period ===== +
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-If you followed this user guide then only the "Homeroom attendance" period can take attendance because it was configured as such in ''School Setup -> Periods''. So in this case we would need to create a course period to mark attendance during the homeroom attendance in the morning.  +
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-First, again in ''School Setup -> Courses -> Courses Manager'' create a new subject "Homeroom attendance" with a course inside "Homeroom attendance" and finally a course period inside the course. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:attendance-1.png?direct |}} +
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-Create a course period just like any other course period but making sure you enable "Takes attendance" at the end. While the marking period could be a semester or quarter it is common to mark attendance throughout the full year in the same way. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:attendance-2.png?direct |}} +
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-<note tip>The concept would be the same in secondary but you could take attendance in each and every period of the day as long as periods would be marked to take attendance.</note> +
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-<note tip>Make sure you schedule students into the Homeroom Attendance course period (or any other course period that takes attendnce.)</note> +
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-===== Attendance Code ===== +
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-As a one time setup you need to configure your attendance codes as per your school's policy. For example as below. +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:attendance-setup-attendance-codes-1.png?direct |}} +
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-  * **Teacher & Office**: means a Teacher as well as Office staff can enter Attendance for that code.  +
-  * **Office Only** means Office staff can only use that code. +
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-Example use case of “office only”: A parent calls at 7:00 AM to the school’s front desk and reports that his child is sick and won’t come to school. The front office marks the Student “excused absence” ahead of time. When the home room teacher actually takes the attendance, say at 9:00 AM, she will see that that student is already marked excused absence by the office. The teacher does not have edit rights to the field. +
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-===== Take Attendance ===== +
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-Teachers typically take attendance for their students. So if you followed this guide you should logout as shown below and login again with a teacher. +
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-Then set yourself to the homeroom attendance course period as shown below (or any other course period that takes attendance). +
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-{{ :sis-user-manual:attendance-take-attendance-1.png?direct |}} +
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-You should then be presented with a list of students scheduled in that course period and can easily take attendance. +
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-====== Grades ====== +
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-openSIS can record letter grades and percentage grades. In order to give letter grades the grading scale should be set up first. +
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-===== Setup Report Card Grades ===== +
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-Go to Grades->Setup->Report Card Grades and enter a Grade Scale name and Save it. +
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